Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Convention not only transferred the Crown to William and Mary , but also laid down certain terms for the new rulers in the document known as the Declaration of Rights , and if the offer of the Crown was not strictly speaking conditional upon William and Mary 's acceptance of these terms , it was clear that everyone expected that they were to abide by them . |
| 2 | In striking down the law Duplantier made it clear that he hoped that his decision would provide the opportunity for the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1973 judgement Roe v. Wade which provided the foundation of legal abortion in the US . |
| 3 | When she was calmer , she also made it clear that she felt that a stricter approach that forced Balbinder to concentrate and work harder was all that was needed . |
| 4 | For a moment Nutty was afraid that he knew that Hoomey had given his secret away ; but he was not apathetic anymore . |
| 5 | Furthermore , it is interesting that he held that they owed this ‘ to an antecedent utility as objects of beauty ’ . |
| 6 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 7 | But we would be equally wrong if we believed that the development of rhythms depended wholly upon internal factors . |
| 8 | Minter , had he but known it , was right as well as wrong : right that Harry was running short of cash , wrong if he believed that currently mattered to him a jot . |
| 9 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 10 | However , he died intestate and she claimed that she was absolutely entitled to the deceased 's house and other property . |
| 11 | He placed an old towel on the bathroom floor so that it would not get wet and he ensured that everything he needed was within reach so that he did not have to move from the spot and so drip water everywhere . |
| 12 | I asked if it was foreign and she said that it was . ’ |
| 13 | He was still calm but she thought that his face was paler . |
| 14 | She had done nothing wrong but she felt that she had . |
| 15 | When Spurgeon opened Pastor 's College in 1856 some of the first pupils were illiterate but he insisted that his aim was to equip ‘ a class of ministers who will not aim at lofty scholarship , but at the winning of souls — men of the people ’ . |
| 16 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 17 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 18 | and er actually Joan was quite embarrassed because she heard that you were in a box |
| 19 | We in Fontanellato were not afraid because we thought that apart from houses and farms we had nothing worth bombing . |
| 20 | A man I know told me that he was twenty years old before he realised that his mother really loved him . |
| 21 | Butler was , perhaps , not saying anything so very different when he observed that ‘ equal educational opportunity is not identical educational opportunity ’ . |
| 22 | Frank Chapman , an executive council member of the EEPTU electricians ' union , was hissed and slow-handclapped when he asserted that scaling down nuclear power would put a brake on economic development in third world countries . |
| 23 | Darwin 's critics were wrong when they said that all my offspring would inherit half of it . |
| 24 | The spokesman , Rafi Horowitz , was wrong when he said that Palestinians could not claim their lands because they were citizens of a country at war with Israel . |
| 25 | He was the first star to weather the storm of a dope scandal , emerging unscathed and proving the Indianapolis Star wrong when it prophesied that ‘ The public never did — never will — laugh off a dope scandal involving a screen favourite performer . |
| 26 | But there ; she was wrong when she thought that everybody prayed , because Mrs Aggie did n't pray , nor did Ben , nor his Annie . |
| 27 | Born in Middlesex of an Irish doctor , she grew up in a pleasant and comfortable home in Ireland and was 5 years old when she noticed that her hearing was failing , and by the age of 17 , she was almost totally deaf . |
| 28 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 29 | He wanted her to go , and she felt afraid as she realised that she did not want to go at all . |
| 30 | Perhaps Jesus meant by this the ‘ outcasts ’ of Jewish society , although it is equally possible that he meant that God 's message — the kingdom — was for everyone , regardless of race . |